- William J. Maxwell. The Complete Poems of Claude McKay. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
- Kotti Sree Ramesh and Kandula Nirupa Rani. Claude McKay: The Literary Identity from Jamaica to Harlem and Beyond. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006.
- James R. Giles. Claude McKay. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976.
- Gary Edward Holcomb. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.
- Felipe Smith. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
- Garance Franke-Ruta. "When America Was Female." The Atlantic. March 5, 2013. August 6, 2018. <https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/when-america-was-female/273672/>.